The Sony Ericsson T68i : One of the very first phones to offer a colour screen and digital camera

Launched in time for the 2001 Christmas season, the candy bar-style Ericsson T68m was the first mobile phone made by Ericsson to have a colour screen, a passive LCD-STN with a resolution of 101×80 and 256 colours. Despite its diminute size (3.94×1.89×0.79 in or 100×48×20 mm, 2.96 oz or 84 g), it was one of the most feature-rich mobile phones at the time, with Bluetooth, IrDA port, GPRS 3+1, tri-band compatibility (900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz), SMS with T9 (predictive text), EMS, WAP, and customizable monophonic ring tones.
The Sony Ericsson T68i, as by then Ericsson had joined forces with Sony Corporation to produce mobile phones as Sony Ericsson. The upgrade, also available to owners of the T68, provided a built-in e-mail client, SyncML support, and, for the first time ever, two-way MMS with full SMIL implementation. The T68i is known for being a highly effective example of stealth marketing. Before being released Sony Ericsson paid actors to pretend to be tourists and asked people to take pictures of them with the T68i. A camera was not present, which was sold as an add-on and, at the end of the model life cycle, was offered with the phone. Calendar Items, Wallpaper Images, Screensaver Images, Pictures of Senders, and Ringtones can be sent to the T68i through the Bluetooth protocol, or infrared.

General 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900

Announced April 2002

Status Discontinued

Size Dimensions 101 x 48 x 19.5 mm

Weight 84 g

Display Type STN, 256 colors

Size 101 x 80 pixels

- Joystick navigation

- Image handling

Sound Alert types Vibration; Downloadable monophonic ringtones, composer

Speakerphone No

- Ringtones can be assigned to contacts

Memory Phonebook 500 x 8 fields, Photo call

Call records 10 dialed, 10 received, 10 missed calls

Card slot No

- 1000 sec voice memo

- 300 calendar events

Data GPRS Class 4 (3+1 slots), 24 - 36 kbps

EDGE No

3G No

WLAN No

Bluetooth Yes, v1.0b

Infrared port Yes

USB

Camera No

Features Messaging SMS, EMS, MMS, Email

Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML

Radio No

Clock Yes

Alarm Yes

Games 8 - Arimona, Contrary, Erix, Four piles, Naval Fleet, North territory, Q, Yukon Struggle

Colors Arctic Blue

GPS No

Java No

- T9

- Organizer

- Voice dialing

- Voice answering

- Profiles

Battery Standard, Li-Ion 700 mAh (BST-14)

Stand-by up to 300 h

Talk time Up to 11 h

Misc SAR US 0.54 W/kg (head)

SAR EU 0.38 W/kg (head)

The Series :

The Sony Ericsson T610

The Sony Ericsson T610, released in 2003,It was one of the first widely available mobile phones to include a built-in digital camera, Bluetooth, color screen, joystick navigation, and was a very high selling model.

The T610 is a sophisticated camera phone. It has a quality 65,536 color display, extensive picture sharing options and the latest messaging. The ring tones are polyphonic 32 voice. And for the best mobile games, the T610 supports Java(TM) download.

(old handphone - www.old-handphone.blogspot.com)